Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gift for giving life to the life-sick which is somehow lacking in John Gielgud's curiously inanimate performance. The pukka sahib accents of the cast conjure up stiff-lipped Britons muddling through, rather than Russians sucked under in emotional quicksands. Chekhov's night music of the soul, so beautifully attuned in Director William Ball's 1958 off-Broadway revival, is jangled here. At its purest, it is an ineffable resonance of laughter and tears, making the whole world kin. It is unthinkable that anyone who loves Chekhov would miss the Gielgud production, and equally unthinkable...
...Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and delivered Florence to the allies...
...utterances and intuitive escapades, Luci made Page One only too often. Now, however, the President's 18-year-old daughter gives evidence of new serenity and purpose, brought about in large measure by her recent conversion to Roman Catholicism. "I used to feel frivolity was good for the soul," she admits. "Now I enjoy using my time more constructively...
...WALK, by John Hersey. A deft portrayal of the collegiate scene more than compensates for Author Hersey's too-clever tale of a sophomore who sells his soul to the Devil...
...same thing it owes me-nothing." As a coach, Russell admits, he will have to improve his public relations. "But I won't conform to anybody's code of behavior," he insists. "My name is still William Felton Russell. I'm not going to sell my soul...